Maybe I missed it but how is this better than Excel?
Tad, a tabular data viewer
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Re: Tad, a tabular data viewer
#12Maybe I missed it but how is this better than Excel?
It doesn't appear to cost anything at all.
Re: Tad, a tabular data viewer
#13Maybe I missed it but how is this better than Excel?
I don't think I ever claimed it was better than Excel, which is targeted at different set of users and use cases. That said, here are some reasons why some users might prefer Tad to Excel: It's free and MIT licensed with the sources on github. It's available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It works on any tabular data source. The UI for creating a pivot table is clear and intuitive and efficient (just a few clicks); many users find Excel's pivot table interface difficult and confusing. The underlying typed data model is a better fit for many data sets. And finally, it is many times faster than Excel for loading and working with large CSV files: My large test data set takes 12 sec to load in Tad vs 40 sec. for Excel.
Re: Tad, a tabular data viewer
#14Maybe I missed it but how is this better than Excel?
I don't think I ever claimed it was better than Excel, which is targeted at different set of users and use cases. That said, here are some reasons why some users might prefer Tad to Excel: It's free and MIT licensed with the sources on github. It's available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It works on any tabular data source. The UI for creating a pivot table is clear and intuitive and efficient (just a few clicks); many…
I think these are all very legitimate reasons, thanks for the info!
Re: Tad, a tabular data viewer
#15Maybe I missed it but how is this better than Excel?
I don't think I ever claimed it was better than Excel, which is targeted at different set of users and use cases. That said, here are some reasons why some users might prefer Tad to Excel: It's free and MIT licensed with the sources on github. It's available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It works on any tabular data source. The UI for creating a pivot table is clear and intuitive and efficient (just a few clicks); many…
Perhaps the better question is, how is this better than Google Spreadsheets? Most of your reasons still apply, but I believe google docs handles large spreadsheets pretty well (after an initial loading phase).
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#16Wow, this seems simple but I got excited immediately when seeing this. Since I have been writing code to export data for clients, I have grown so tired of Kingsoft Spreadsheets and Google Sheets lagging like crazy with any sizable amounts of data. This will be a cool new tool to show my coworkers tomorrow and I'll be using it. Performance seems very snappy so far!
I really don't understand how anyone can use Google office apps, the UI is painfully slow. I was using Gnumeric before, but I'll try this out, thanks OP!
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't think I ever claimed it was better than Excel, which is targeted at different set of users and use cases. That said, here are some reasons why some users might prefer Tad to Excel: It's free and MIT licensed with the sources on github. It's available for Linux, Windows and Mac. It works on any tabular data source. The UI for creating a pivot table is clear and intuitive and efficient (just a few clicks); many…
Perhaps the better question is, how is this better than Google Spreadsheets? Most of your reasons still apply, but I believe google docs handles large spreadsheets pretty well (after an initial loading phase).
Google Sheets isn't open sourced and MIT licensed is one big difference
Re: Tad, a tabular data viewer
#18Interesting, I would describe it as an SQL client with an easy interface to load column based files. It's built on top of SQLite, which gives an indication of the kind of performance one can expect.
SQLite is pretty fast actually. More problematic is that this uses Electron. Loading a tiny 200-line CSV file took 120MB for me lol
Can it run a proper local server, so that one could connect using an already open browser? (Maybe even remotely.)
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#19Wow, this seems simple but I got excited immediately when seeing this. Since I have been writing code to export data for clients, I have grown so tired of Kingsoft Spreadsheets and Google Sheets lagging like crazy with any sizable amounts of data. This will be a cool new tool to show my coworkers tomorrow and I'll be using it. Performance seems very snappy so far!
I really don't understand how anyone can use Google office apps, the UI is painfully slow. I was using Gnumeric before, but I'll try this out, thanks OP!
The only two selling points for me with Gnumeric are a rough function equivalence with MS Excel 2003 and the output to LaTeX tables (which is _absolutely awesome_). Other than that, it's always been pretty buggy for me.
Not that LibreOffice gets a pass, but it doesn't crash nearly as often for me.
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#20The brief screenshot and short description look cool – does anyone have a screencast demo?
EDIT: once you install it, a rich README pops up which includes more screenshots and some example datasets. Fun to play around with